A B757 ACFT ON SID DEP WAS CLRED TO A DIFFERENT RWY FOR TKOF. FLC FELT RUSHED AND WHEN TWR CLRED THEM TO COMPLY WITH NOISE ABATEMENT PROC; CAPT RPTR LOOKED UP THE PROC; BUT FOR THE WRONG RWY. CONSEQUENTLY; FLC TURNED 1 MI EARLY.

Date: 1997-07 · Aircraft: B757 Undifferentiated or Other Model · Phase: climb

Anomalies: deviation-track-heading-all-types|deviation-discrepancy-procedural-clearance|deviation-discrepancy-procedural-published-material-policy

Synopsis

A B757 ACFT ON SID DEP WAS CLRED TO A DIFFERENT RWY FOR TKOF. FLC FELT RUSHED AND WHEN TWR CLRED THEM TO COMPLY WITH NOISE ABATEMENT PROC; CAPT RPTR LOOKED UP THE PROC; BUT FOR THE WRONG RWY. CONSEQUENTLY; FLC TURNED 1 MI EARLY.

Narrative

DURING TAXI OUT AT ABQ TO RWY 26; ATC CHANGED OUR RWY ASSIGNMENT TO RWY 8. THIS CREATED A REQUIREMENT TO RECHK ARPT ANALYSIS DATA AND RECONFIGURE BUG SETTINGS. THIS; ALONG WITH NUMEROUS HOLD SHORT TAXI INSTRUCTIONS; LEFT JUST ENOUGH TIME TO RECHK AND RESET DATA AND INSTS FOR THE NEW RWY ASSIGNMENT. WE WERE THEN CLRED INTO POS; FOLLOWED BY CLRNC TO 'COMPLY WITH NOSE ABATEMENT; THEN TURN L HDG 310 DEGS; CLRED FOR TKOF RWY 8.' THE CLRNC REMINDED ME THAT I HAD NOT CHKED THE NOISE ABATEMENT PROC; SO I IMMEDIATELY REFED MY PAGE FOR THE DATA (WHILE STILL IN POS). I LOOKED AT THE WRONG TEXT (FOR RWY 26) THAT DID NOT SPECIFY A DELAY (DME FIX) PRIOR TO TURNING. CONSEQUENTLY; AFTER TKOF; WE MADE OUR L TURN TO 310 DEGS APPROX 1 MI PRIOR TO THE ABQ 13.5 DME ARC. (THE CORRECT PROC FOR RWY 8 SPECIFIES 'IF EXECUTING A L TURN; DELAY TURNING UNTIL ABQ 13.5 DME'.) IN THE FUTURE; I WILL ENSURE THAT I HAVE THE CORRECT INFO; AND IF LAST MIN CHANGES LIKE THIS OCCUR; I WILL ASK THE TWR OPERATOR TO SIMPLY STATE WHAT THE NOISE ABATEMENT PROC IS TO PREVENT REPEATING THIS TYPE OF ERROR.

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